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[Ohios Jefferson County]
A Reminiscence of the Days of Slavery by Samuel S. Tomlinson, of Emerson, Ohio.
Although the elapse of time may have rendered the date of the event we are about chronicle a little uncertain. It is believed to have been about the year 1837, that a young colored man, poor, friendless, and alone, calling himself James McCleve (otherwise Jim Crow) came to the vicinity of Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, seeking employment who from his own account was born and raised a slave in North Carolina, but while yet a boy was presented by his master to his son, a minister McElvee , who had received a call, in the line of his profession, and was about to move to the vicinity of Pittsburgh^in Western "Pennsylvania.
To that state where the control of the master must cease, at the age of majority, Jim was conveyed by his young master, whom he continued to serve until about the age of legal manhood, when he was furnished with a certificate of freedom and turned adrift upon the world, penniless, to pro¬ vide for himself. With this evidence of the right of a free man in his pocket, he made his way to the far famed neighborhood of Mt. Pleasant, where the inalienable right to liberty had long been a cherished sentiment with the people regardless of the color of the skin.

[Ohios Jefferson County]
A Reminiscence of the Days of Slavery by Samuel S. Tomlinson, of Emerson, Ohio.
Although the elapse of time may have rendered the date of the event we are about chronicle a little uncertain. It is believed to have been about the year 1837, that a young colored man, poor, friendless, and alone, calling himself James McCleve (otherwise Jim Crow) came to the vicinity of Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, seeking employment who from his own account was born and raised a slave in North Carolina, but while yet a boy was presented by his master to his son, a minister McElvee , who had received a call, in the line of his profession, and was about to move to the vicinity of Pittsburgh^in Western "Pennsylvania.
To that state where the control of the master must cease, at the age of majority, Jim was conveyed by his young master, whom he continued to serve until about the age of legal manhood, when he was furnished with a certificate of freedom and turned adrift upon the world, penniless, to pro¬ vide for himself. With this evidence of the right of a free man in his pocket, he made his way to the far famed neighborhood of Mt. Pleasant, where the inalienable right to liberty had long been a cherished sentiment with the people regardless of the color of the skin.